"I would rather lose all my lands and a hundred lives than be king over heretics." -- King Philip II of Spain, quoted in: A Brief History of the Spanish Language by David A. Pharies, (2007) "God, who has given me so many Kingdoms to govern, has not given me a son fit to govern them." -- King Philip of Spain, quoted in: Europe in the Seventeenth Century by David Maland

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